F2F Class Notes (Li)[W]

Do you have an unforgettable/positive holiday experience?

Vocabulary

intersection – road crossing

ex. Turn right at the next intersection.

simple – basic

ex. The cafe has a simple, modern design.

barista – a person who makes coffee in a coffee shop

pronounce – verb

ex. Lily taught me how to pronounce some words.

pronunciation – noun

ex. I need to improve my pronunciation.

writing – a special type of noun

ex. Most people are better at writing than speaking.

socialise (v) – go out and spend time with friends

ex. My friends don’t want to socialise during the week.

social (adj) – out of work activities that you do with others

ex. There are many social activities that are available in SH.

ex. Their company organises at least 2 social events a month.

specific – clear and exact

ex. He communicates in a specific manner.

Grammar

fun vs. funny 

fun – noun/when you have a good time

funny – adj/when something makes you laugh

put – on a table

push – a button/door

ride – rode (past tense) 

take – took (past tense) 

tell – told  (past tense) 

teach – taught (past tense) 

get/get up – got/got up (past tense)  

in – Chinese/English/China/Korea

in – the morning/afternoon/evening (for time)

on – dates/holidays with “day”/New Years Day/Christmas Day  (for time)

at – specific time/5 AM/7 o’clock /6:15

Writing is difficult for me

Subject – verb – object

I am good at writing. 

Subject – verb – object

To day is my first English class.

I ride a mobile bike to the west Nanjing road and Hashan road corner.
And Take a black coffee from Aunn café, it’s look like a famous place, simply，not color full, and young bartender .
The classroom is on 19 floor share office, so I ride an elevator and put the button to the 19 floors.
I think Lily is a professional teacher, when I opened my mouth read my homework,
She gets me long and short pronounced is unclear. That’s why I need a teacher.
I never write the daily with English and Chinese either. Write is difficult for me.

Revised: 

Today was my first English class.

I rode a mobike to West Nanjing Road and Huashan Road intersection.
Then, I took a black coffee from Aunn café, it looks like a famous place, simple, not colorful and there are young baristas .
The classroom is on the 9th floor, it’s a shared office, so I ride an elevator and push a button to the 9th floors.
I think Lily is a professional teacher because she said to read my homework.
She told me my long and short pronunciation is unclear. That’s why I need a teacher.
I never write daily in English and Chinese either. Writing is difficult for me.

Nov 14 is a crazy day,
I get up 5 am,
Yes, today is a golf day, golf game is one of my favorite exercise,
Golf game just walking and hitting the ball, it looks like pretty easy, but is not true.
Many people play golf for social or business, actually is a struggling,
You need to fight the weather and get over the course but most important is control your mind which also call the mental game.
In the lunch I and two friends Peter and William are going to 楚楚圆 restaurant,
It’s north area foods, something like dumplings, pie and noodles.
When I go home and saw a traffic accident at 南北 highway, it’s so horrible.
One vehicle in front of the truck, I don’t know how that make it, I hoped everyone is fine.
In the afternoon, I slept a while about 2 hours, the took the line2 subway to “Paulaner” to join Scorpio’s birthday party, it’s located on the 长宁来福士 square.
We have 12 Scorpios are in this party. two guys is a new friend but they also Scorpio too.
We drank a lot of beer and played alcohol game. It’s very funny and happy night.

Revised: 

Nov 14 is a crazy day, I got up at 5 am,
Yes, today is a golf day, golf game is one of my favorite exercises,
Golf may just be walking and hitting the ball, it looks like pretty easy, but it is not true.
Many people play golf to socialise or for business, but actually, it is more difficult than most people think. 
You need to fight with the weather and adapt to different situations/courses but most importantly, you have to control your mind so it is also called a mental game.
For lunch, two friends of mine, Peter and William and I are going to 楚楚圆 restaurant.
It’s northern Chinese food, some things like dumplings, pie and noodles.
When I got home and saw a traffic accident at 南北 highway, it was so horrible.
One vehicle was in front of the truck, I don’t know how they made it, I hope everyone is fine.
In the afternoon, I slept for about 2 hours, I took the line2 subway to “Paulaner” to join Scorpio’s birthday party, it’s located on 长宁来福士 square.
We have 12 Scorpios are in this party. two guys are new but they are also Scorpio too.
We drank a lot of beer and played some drinking games. It was a fun and happy night.

Pronunciation

specific – spuh-si-fick